{"id":1820,"date":"2012-01-13T05:27:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2012-08-22T22:56:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T04:56:21","slug":"goals-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=1820","title":{"rendered":"Goals for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Shoot<\/p>\n

It\u2019s January 13 and we still haven\u2019t taken our Christmas d\u00e9cor down. Really.<\/p>\n

We felt that Christmas holidays went by so fast this year that we needed to keep the tree and the lights up just a little longer. So we did, but today is the day they all come down and get packed away for another year.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, there are other things I\u2019m more on top of. I got my goals for this next year all written around Christmas. I think it\u2019s so important to set goals of things you want to accomplish or get better at each year.<\/p>\n

My list is always very long (with room at the bottom to add more later!), so I thought I\u2019d share 5 of my top goals from that list!<\/p>\n

1.Wake up earlier and go to bed earlier \u2013 actually stick to a schedule<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I come from a family of night owls and all of us get energy late at night, which makes it hard to wind down. All the same, I\u2019m working on it. So far, I\u2019ve got the getting up early part pretty good, but I still go to bed really late. This is making me even more tired. I have beautiful, dark half-moons under my eyes. I can tell this will be one will be hard work!<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

(the things I doodle late at night…haha)<\/p>\n

2. Spend quality time with the Lord in the morning<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I try to spend time with God every day, but I would like to spend more<\/em> time doing that. I feel so much more refreshed and ready to take on the day when I\u2019ve had a good chat with the Lord! I\u2019d like to journal more and read devotional books to encourage me in my walk with God.<\/p>\n

3. Be a good student with good grades!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

NEWS!!!!<\/strong> It\u2019s kind of crazy, but I\u2019ve decided that I\u2019m going to college in the fall! It\u2019s been years since I\u2019ve been in school, so it\u2019s an adjustment, but I\u2019m looking forward to it! Can you guess what I\u2019m taking? Exercise Science! Eventually, when college is over I\u2019ll end up as a certified personal trainer! I\u2019m so blessed to be pursuing a passion of mine! I\u2019ve actually started courses now with distance learning, so it\u2019s super odd to be studying again!<\/p>\n

P.S. For that reason, posting might not be as regular, but I\u2019ll do my best to keep up with it!<\/p>\n

4. Run a midnight race<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a 10k that I\u2019ve wanted to do for ages\u2026and it\u2019s done in the dark! How fun is that? I\u2019m going to hopefully run it in March with two of my brothers. After that, I\u2019m not necessarily going to go crazy with running\u2026I\u2019m really enjoying doing more strength training these days.<\/p>\n

5. Spend money on necessities only<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now that I\u2019m saving for school, I\u2019ve decided I\u2019m not buying things unless I need to. So basically, I\u2019m eliminating lots of my \u201cwants\u201d. No more dark chocolate bars, iTunes, clothes, and magazines, ect. This has been hard, but I\u2019m proud to say that since last November the only thing I\u2019ve bought myself selfishly was a chocolate bar and gum, which totaled to 1.50. I\u2019m now becoming a close-fisted and penny-pinching hoarder. What hurts the most is iTunes\u2026I need new music.<\/p>\n

So there\u2026those are a few of my goals. I\u2019d love to hear more about what goals you set for yourself this year!<\/p>\n

\"Charissa<\/p>\n

When do you take down your Christmas decorations? What goals did you set for 2012?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s January 13 and we still haven\u2019t taken our Christmas d\u00e9cor down. Really. We felt that Christmas holidays went by so fast this year that we needed to keep the tree and the lights up just a little longer. So we did, but today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[512,1367,510,511,1368],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3225,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/3225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}